John Ellis
"
Jeb
"
Bush
(born February 11, 1953) is an
American
businessman and politician. He served as the
43rd Governor of Florida
from 1999 to 2007.
Bush is the second son of former
President
George H. W. Bush
and former
First Lady
Barbara Bush
, the younger brother of former
President
George W. Bush
, and grandson of the late
Prescott Bush
,
United States Senator
from
Connecticut
. Following his father's successful run for
Vice President in 1980
, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's
successful campaign
for the Presidency.
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent
Lawton Chiles
. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor
Buddy MacKay
with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002. He won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term
Republican
governor.
[1]
During his eight years as governor, Bush helped create environmental improvements, such as conservation in the
Everglades
, supporting
caps for medical malpractice litigation
, moving
Medicaid
recipients to private systems, and creating reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting
school choice
.
[2]
[3]
Bush
was a candidate
for the Republican nomination in the
2016 presidential election
.
Bush was born in
Midland, Texas
.
[4]
He was raised in
Houston
, Texas. His father is
George H. W. Bush
, the 41st President of the United States and 43rd
Vice President of the United States
. His mother is
Barbara Pierce
. The nickname "Jeb" is made up of his initials J.E.B. (John Ellis Bush).
[5]
Bush received poor grades at first and occasionally smoked
marijuana
.
[6]
He made the
honor roll
by the end of his senior year and served as captain of the tennis team.
[6]
He studied at the
University of Texas at Austin
.
[6]
At the age of 17, Bush taught English as a second language and worked in the building of a school in Ibarrilla, a small village outside of
Leon, Guanajuato
,
Mexico
/
[7]
It was part of a student exchange summer program.
[8]
While in Mexico, he met his future wife,
Columba Garnica Gallo
.
[8]
[9]
Florida Secretary of Commerce (1987-1988)
[
change
|
change source
]
Following his father's successful run for
Vice President in 1980
, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development.
[10]
In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's
successful campaign
for the Presidency.
[11]
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office. He lost the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent
Lawton Chiles
.
[10]
Governor of Florida (1999-2007)
[
change
|
change source
]
Bush ran again in 1998 and beat Lieutenant Governor
Buddy MacKay
with 55 percent of the vote. Bush's administration was marked by a focus on public education reform.
While Governor, Bush reduced taxes by $19 billion, reduced the size of state government by 6.6 percent, and vetoed $2 billion in new spending. Bush eliminated civil service protection for over 16,000 state jobs, which had the effect of making it easier to fire employees in those positions.
Bush signed legislation to restore the
Everglades
as part of an $8 billion project in conjunction with the federal government. Bush supported more than a dozen new protections for gun owners. In 2005, Bush signed into law Florida's
stand-your-ground law
,
[12]
[13]
which was the first such state law in the United States.
[14]
In 2004, Bush supported an unsuccessful bill to allow illegal immigrants to be issued drivers licenses by the state.
He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor.
[15]
During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the
Everglades
, supporting
caps for medical malpractice litigation
, moving
medicaid
recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting
school choice
.
[16]
[17]
Bush was considered a potential candidate in the
2016 presidential election
since the end of the
2012 election
.
[18]
At a press conference on April 16, 2013, at
Bluefield College
, Bush stated he had not begun the decision-making process about a run but that he would begin to consider a run soon.
[19]
On October 2, 2014, Bush's brother George said that his brother "wants to be President".
[20]
On December 16, 2014, Bush announced via
Facebook
that he would be "actively exploring" a 2016 run to become President of the United States and at the end of the year resigned several corporate boards.
[21]
[22]
Bush announced his
candidacy
on June 15, 2015.
[23]
[24]
[25]
Bush was high on Republican polls for president in June, but slipped as he lost to
Donald Trump
,
Ted Cruz
and to
Marco Rubio
.
[26]
After losing the
Iowa
,
New Hampshire
and
South Carolina
caucuses, Bush suspended his campaign on February 20, 2016.
[27]
Bush married Columba Bush in 1974. They have three children:
George
, Noelle, and John.
In 1995, Bush converted from
Anglicanism
to
Roman Catholicism
.
[28]
In 2004, he became a Fourth Degree
Knight of Columbus
.
[29]
Bush, a member of Father Hugon Council 3521 in Tallahassee, has joined Father Hugon Assembly.
[30]
- ↑
"Jeb Bush Makes History In Florida"
. CBS News. February 11, 2009. Archived from
the original
on May 12, 2013
. Retrieved
May 29,
2013
.
- ↑
Associated, The (December 14, 2006).
"Gov. Jeb Bush's environmental legacy during eight years in office"
. Jacksonville.com. Archived from
the original
on May 14, 2013
. Retrieved
May 29,
2013
.
- ↑
"Jeb Bush | StateImpact Florida"
. Stateimpact.npr.org
. Retrieved
May 29,
2013
.
- ↑
McCrimmon, Ryan (March 17, 2015).
"In Texas, a Focused Jeb Bush Stood Out From the Crowd"
.
Texas Tribune
.
Austin, Texas
. Retrieved
May 24,
2015
.
- ↑
"Jeb Bush's Pros and Cons"
.
The Huffington Post
. 16 December 2014
. Retrieved
June 14,
2015
.
- ↑
6.0
6.1
6.2
Kranish, Michael (February 1, 2015).
"Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years"
. Boston Globe
. Retrieved
January 31,
2015
.
- ↑
Kruse, Michael (May 21, 2015).
"Andover, Mexico and the Making of Jeb Bush"
.
Politico
. Washingon, DC
. Retrieved
May 25,
2015
.
Before the Andover boys and teacher John J. Patrick helped build the two-room schoolhouse in Ibarrilla, outside of Leon, in their two-month trip in 1971, the village had no school at all?only a local woman who volunteered to teach the children who were interested in learning rudimentary reading and math skills.
- ↑
8.0
8.1
Guevara-Castro, Lillian (May 5, 1999).
"Florida's First Lady: Columba Bush settles into life in the governor's mansion"
.
Ocala Star-Banner
.
Ocala, Florida
. Retrieved
March 22,
2015
.
Columba Garnica Gallo was 16 and John Ellis "Jeb" Bush was 17 when they met in the central Mexican town of Leon. Jeb was teaching English and helping to build a school as an exchange student from Phillips Academy, a prestigious prep school in Andover, Mass.
- ↑
"Hispanic consciousness lends weight to Jeb Bush as GOP eyes 2016 presidential race"
.
The Washington Post
. April 24, 2013
. Retrieved
February 9,
2015
.
- ↑
10.0
10.1
Kyle Pendergast (November 19, 2008).
"Where are they now? Jeb Bush"
. Houston Chronicle.
- ↑
Eder, Steve; Barbaro, Michael (February 14, 2015).
"As Dynasty's Son, Jeb Bush Used His Connections Freely"
.
New York Times
. Retrieved
February 15,
2015
.
- ↑
Jeffers, Jr., Groomer (24 March 2012).
"In Arlington, Jeb Bush says 'stand your ground' invalid in Trayvon Martin case"
. The Dallas Morning News
. Retrieved
31 January
2015
.
- ↑
Meckler, Laura (16 December 2014).
"What Kind of Republican is Bush? His Time as Governor Offers Clues"
. Wall Street Journal
. Retrieved
31 January
2015
.
- ↑
"States That Have Stand Your Ground Laws"
.
FindLaw
. Thomson Reuters
. Retrieved
1 February
2015
.
- ↑
February 11, 2009, 8:57 PM (2009-02-11).
"Jeb Bush Makes History In Florida"
. CBS News. Archived from
the original
on 2013-05-12
. Retrieved
2013-05-29
.
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- ↑
Associated, The (2006-12-14).
"Gov. Jeb Bush's environmental legacy during eight years in office"
. Jacksonville.com. Archived from
the original
on 2013-05-14
. Retrieved
2013-05-29
.
- ↑
"Jeb Bush | StateImpact Florida"
. Stateimpact.npr.org
. Retrieved
2013-05-29
.
- ↑
Rutenberg, Jim; Jeff Zeleny (November 22, 2012).
"Jeb Bush in 2016? Not Too Early for Chatter"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
December 1,
2012
.
- ↑
"Bush: No decision yet on whether to run for president in 2016"
.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
. VA. April 16, 2013
. Retrieved
April 18,
2013
.
- ↑
Kendall Breitman,
George W. Bush: I think Jeb wants it
.
Politico
, 10/2/14.
- ↑
"A Note from Jeb Bush"
.
facebook.com
.
- ↑
Roberts, Dan (January 1, 2015).
"Jeb Bush sheds corporate commitments to help 2016 presidential run"
.
www.theguardian.com
. Guardian News & Media Limited
. Retrieved
January 1,
2015
.
- ↑
Diamond, Jeremy (June 4, 2015).
"Jeb Bush to announce candidacy June 15"
. CNN
. Retrieved
June 4,
2015
.
- ↑
Tau, Byron (June 15, 2015).
"Jeb Bush Files Paperwork to Run for President"
.
The Wall Street Journal
. Retrieved
June 15,
2015
.
- ↑
Holland, Steve (June 15, 2015).
%5b%5bReuters%5d%5d
"Jeb Bush vows to fix Washington as he starts White House run"
. Retrieved
June 15,
2015
.
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permanent dead link
]
- ↑
Mazzei, Patricia and Sherman, Amy.
“With pressure on, Jeb Bush delivers forceful speech confirming 2016 presidential candidacy”
,
Miami Herald
(June 15, 2015).
- ↑
"Jeb Bush suspends 2016 campaign"
. Washington Post.com
. Retrieved
February 20,
2016
.
- ↑
"Jeb Bush, Catholic Convert. Will His Brother Convert?"
. Catholic.org. September 2, 2009. Archived from
the original
on September 5, 2012
. Retrieved
August 8,
2012
.
- ↑
"President Discusses Compassionate Conservative Agenda in Dallas"
. Retrieved
August 8,
2012
.
[
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]
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[1]
Archived
2015-01-08 at the
Wayback Machine
Knights of Columbus, Accessed January 8, 2014
- Barnes, Fred
.
"Governor in Chief: Jeb Bush's remarkable eight years of achievement in Florida."
The Weekly Standard
, June 12, 2006.
- Freedberg, Sydney P. "Jeb Bush: The Son Rises Away from Dad's Shadow."
The Miami Herald
, August 15, 1994.
- Huffington, Arianna
.
"The latest Bush hypocrisy"
Archived
2005-02-22 at the
Wayback Machine
.
Salon.com
, September 16, 2002.
- Viglucci, Andres and Alfonso Chardy.
"Bush and business: Fast success, brushes with mystery"
.
The Miami Herald
, October 5, 2002.
- Yardley, William.
"Jeb Bush: His early values shape his politics."
The Miami Herald
, September 22, 2002.
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